Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...health care at the turn of the century, now spend 9% and, at the current rate of increase, will be doling out 12%, or $1 trillion, annually by the end of the century. The cost of hospital care over the past ten years has risen more than twice as fast as the overall cost of living (see chart). Carter called the spiraling hospital cost "outrageous" and warned that it was a significant factor in inflation, but one that could be controlled. And Carter argued that a failure to contain inflation would endanger "the basic structure of our society...
...slogans the women shouted were telling: "Down with Khomeini," "We shall fight the veil," "In the dawn of freedom, there is an absence of freedom." "We fought for freedom with the men," one woman explained. "None of us knew freedom would come with chains." Political fashions were changing fast: many of the women now denouncing the veil as a mark of repression gladly wore the all-covering chador as an anti-Shah symbol during the revolution...
...Campbell, 41, who is both the twelfth Duke of Argyll and Chief of the Clan Campbell, says he is surprised how "darned fast" the news of the sale got around and claims a dozen offers "from all over the world." Campbell is selling the island because he owes the government $1 million, the result of estate duties incurred on the death of his father in 1973. He says he shares his countrymen's concern for lona's future and would prefer to turn it over to the National Trust of Scotland, which would ensure the preservation...
...mark call girls and mobsters. They were just too large, too showy and too expensive compared with the better-quality German models. Now, the weak dollar and the U.S. automakers' new enthusiasm for safety and economy are beginning to make the Ami Strassenkreuzer (literally, Yankee street cruiser) a fast-selling status symbol among the young professional elite...
Corporate policy is changing fast to give women the line responsibilities that they must have to rise high enough to become directors. Said General Motors Chairman Thomas Aquinas Murphy, who was a speaker at the breakfast: "Our constant challenge is to find the unconventional woman, the woman with a strong educational background in engineering, who can approach a job as a first-line supervisor with enthusiasm...